“I would like for everybody to endorse me in the campaign,” Enzi said. “She’s got other things on her mind. This is critical enough that she pulled out of her race. So I’m not pressing for anything at this point.”

Enzi noted that the filing deadline is not until May so others could still technically get in the race, but virtually no one expects that he will have serious opposition and the 69-year-old is now expected to coast to a fourth term.

“I will continue to campaign,” he said. “I want to renew my contract to spend another six years to work for Wyoming and America.”

Sources say that Enzi is likely to report raising in the very high six figures during the fourth quarter, although the final number is still being tabulated. Some Cheney advisers had believed that the 47-year-old’s getting into the race might drive Enzi to announce his retirement, and they were emboldened by his historically small fundraising.

Instead, Enzi assembled an impressive stable of consultants and raised $850,000 in the third quarter.

Sources told POLITICO that Enzi had never spent the money to conduct an internal poll because he was always confident that he was ahead.

Enzi said Monday that he’s urged other senators to pray for the Cheney family. He said he has not heard from former Vice President Dick Cheney and that they last spoke “a couple months ago” at a cancer gala in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

The senator expressed hope that Liz Cheney’s six-month campaign would not cause permanent damage to his relationship with Dick Cheney. In October, Dick Cheney said on television that it is “simply not true” for Enzi to describe him as a fishing buddy. Enzi pushed back, noting that he had spoken at the elder Cheney’s induction into the fly fishing Hall of Fame.

On Monday, Enzi struck a gracious tone.

“The way these primaries work and the way these elections work, people put their names forward and they go out and talk to people and they try to get elected,” he said. “That wasn’t a fissure. That’s an effort to get elected.”